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A three-year touring exhibition about the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard has been launched.

The hoard comprises more than 1,500 Anglo-Saxon items found by a metal detectorist buried on a farm in Staffordshire in July 2009.

The collection was subsequently valued at £3.3m and is now owned by Birmingham City Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

The exhibition has been paid for by £47,000 of Heritage Lottery Funding.

It will tour various community venues across the West Midlands for three years and “tell the story” of the discovery of the hoard using replica items and video footage.

Really, I don’t see the point of this. There’s very little about the details of the discovery to interest the general public. Bloke wanders around muddy fields with a metal detector for 20 years and eventually strikes lucky. The “muddy fields” and “20 years” bits will be glossed over but more plonkers will buy cheap detectors from Ebay and go out detecting illegally. Great.